Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly then , apart from isolated evidence of attempted antislavery pledging in 1792 in the middle of a parliament , it did not become a systematic technique of abolitionists until the culmination of the emancipation campaign in the early 1830s when parliamentary reform politics also triumphed . |
| 2 | Given the commitment to its having the same entry qualifications as the degree , it did not become a clear alternative for large numbers of students . |
| 3 | I knew the risk was there but it did n't become a major concern . |
| 4 | I 'd be very disappointed if it did n't become a wealthy country within five or ten years , as opposed to other oil-producing countrie s I 've lived in , Nigeria or Libya . |
| 5 | It had later become a place of exile and migration . |
| 6 | But it had also become a flourishing offshore finance centre with 347 banks before the investigation . |
| 7 | The very powers of rationality which enabled modern man to free himself from nature and control it had also become an instrumental device to dominate him . |
| 8 | By the early 1800s it had even become a staple food , with annual consumption running at about 10 kilos per person in Britain . |
| 9 | It had just become a costly , and addictive , habit . |
| 10 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 11 | The programme had been linked to student unrest in June and it had indeed become a focus of attention among young intellectuals on the campuses . |
| 12 | It had now become a direct challenge to his manhood . |
| 13 | In ‘ The Decline of the English Murder ’ he argued that whereas in the past murder had been a serious business involving strong personal commitments and emotions , it had now become an almost casual affair informed by ‘ the anonymous life of dance-halls and the false values of the American film ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me . |